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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: ANCHOR BAY ENT. EAN: 0013138002099 Feature: After 30 years as partners in the pressure cooker environment of the NYPD, highly decorated Detectives "Turk", played by Academy Award winner Robert De Niro (Raging Bull) and "Rooster", played by Academy Award winner Al Pacino (Scent of a Woman) should be ready for retirement. But, before they can hang up their badges, they are called in to investigate the murder of a notorious pimp, which appears Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Label: Anchor Bay - ITN Languages:EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitled Manufacturer: Anchor Bay - ITN MPN: DV80020 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Anchor Bay - ITN Region Code: 1 Release Date: January 06, 2009 Running Time: 100 minutes Studio: Anchor Bay - ITN Theatrical Release Date: 2008
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After 30 years as partners in the pressure cooker environment of the NYPD, highly decorated Detectives "Turk", played by Academy Award winner Robert De Niro (Raging Bull) and "Rooster", played by Academy Award winner Al Pacino (Scent of a Woman) should be ready for retirement. But, before they can hang up their badges, they are called in to investigate the murder of a notorious pimp, which appears
Editorial Review:
Product Description: After 30 yrs as partners in the pressure cooker environment of the nypd turk and rooster are ready for retirement but they are called to investigate the murder of a notorious pimp which appears to have ties to a case they solved years before. Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 01/06/2009 Starring: Robert Deniro Rating: R Director: Jon Avnet
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Righteous Kill pairs two cinematic icons whose previous screen collaboration, Michael Mann's 1995 Heat, was absolutely electrifying despite minimal time together in a long movie. Now in their mid-60s, De Niro and Pacino are playing veteran cops who, despite being grizzled, should look much younger than these actors. The incongruent casting makes the dark story improbable from the get-go, and things get worse as dialogue by screenwriter Russell Gurwitz quickly sounds like a parody of vintage cop movie cliches. It's a strain to find anything that works. The two leads play longtime detectives and partners whose weariness with rapists, murderers, pedophiles and other villains appears linked to the acts of a serial killer taking out bad guys who got away with heinous crimes. A videotape confession by De Niro's tightly-coiled Turk--who has been seeking the killer with Pacino's Rooster--would seem to establish his ties to the events. But the movie isn't over until it's over, assuming one is still with the movie after plodding along with its facsimile of noir conviction. Director Jon Avnet never gets a handle on Righteous Kill's gritty heart, superficially pushing suspense along with heavy-handed editing, and adding unpersuasive sauce in the form of Turk's somewhat S&M sexual relationship with a female cop (Carla Gugino). Giving the proceedings sort of a boost are Donnie Wahlberg and John Leguizamo as a younger pair of sleuths working the same case. This could easily have been a better movie with those two in the leads. --Tom Keogh
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Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Director makes an unholy mess of Righteous Kill
Apart from the cast, there's really very little to separate this from a whole slew of straight to DVD thrillers. Which makes it all the more a mystery why DeNiro and Pacino chose this as their next vehicle to star in together, having created such screen heat in.. well, Heat.
DeNiro and Pacino are both cops, both veterans (well, they'd have to be wouldn't they...) who end up investigating a vigilante serial killer. As the clues start to appear, suspicion grows that the killer is in fact ... Read More
Rating: - DeNiro and Pacino - The Sequel
With two screen legends, RIGHTEOUS KILL is like watching Ali and Frazier take each other on, long after their prime. Deniro is no longer the man he was in Raging Bull and Cape Fear, while Pacino holds steady in another grizzled veteran role. The missed opportunity here was to not give these two men more unique and dynamic roles - they had to be of all things, casted as old cops - which isn't so challenging. They both wear the role well, but you sense they're doing it easily in spite of the movie's ... Read More
Rating: - Childhood memories!
Jon Avnet directed this shocking thriller with a visible approach to the documental style, giving us hints here and there that allow us to pick up the pieces of this complex and haunting story.
A serial killer is cleaning up the city from well known gangsters, corrupt collaborators but at the moment a priest is murdered, the film acquires a new dimension and the awful nightmare by this victim-executor, paves the way to build a solid and penetrating portrait.
Rating: - "There Was This Kid I Grew Up With ..."
Poor Al. Poor washed up Al.
Maestro, if you please ...
~ Look what they done to your song, Al. ~
~ Look what they've done to your song. ~
~ Well they tied you up and they turned you out ~
~ And it's comin' out all wrong, Al. ~
~ Look what they've done to your song."
Alas, Al Pacino *was* a great actor. This man (ecco homo!) this man was, at one time, The Prince of the City. New York *and* Hollywood!
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Rating: - You Numb Nuts have to be joking!!
De Niro & Pacino were the movie they were awesome.
You people take movies way to serious, instead of trying
to enjoy them.
Non-stop action, suspence and had you goin one way and at the end
you find out you had it all backwards.
I give the movie a 5 of 5 stars.
If your a true fan of De Niro & Pacino you'll like it!!
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